Great set of photos of the homefront in WW2, Kodachrome

[Pat Carry]

Im my opinion, nothing will ever beat Kodachrome. Enjoy these photos. http://pavel-kosenko.livejournal.com/30 ... ?=22669914

[Lightjug]

Very nice, thanks for sharing

[Chappie]

Fanatastic photos.


Chappie

[warbirdfinder]

Fantastic photos! Thank you.

[P51Mstg]

Without looking at them again, Alfred Palmer and Howard Hollem shot those for the government. At the time color film (slides, whatever) was rare, expensive and hard to work with. So those kinds of shots are really in a class by themselves. There are a lot more of them too.


Good article here about them here: (with more pics too)

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011 ... or/100122/


Mark H

[SaxMan]

Great stuff. The 4 x 5 format allowed for some pretty detailed pictures. IIRC, that was what the Graflex Press Camera used. Also, IIRC, the ASA (or ISO?) on early Kodachrome was very slow...around 32, so you needed some really good lighting to get a good depth of field, but the results were spectacular.

My father shot hundreds of Kodachrome color slides when he was stationed in Germany in '57 and '58. The preservation of the colors over time is astounding.